Cleveland Museum of Art
Road to Eaux-Chaudes, Pyrenees (recto)
Farnham Maxwell LyteLinkedCulture matchlcp-93a527859653
- Date
- c. 1855
- Medium
- albumen print from wet collodion negative
- Culture
- England, 19th century
- Department
- Photography
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 157683
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
The town of Pau, in the foothills of the Pyrenees Mountains, was a popular vacation spot for British tourists and one of several centers for photography in France in the 1850s. Farnham Maxwell Lyte, who lived in Pau, photographed the road that ran through the mountains to the village of Eaux-Chaudes with its popular hot springs. The road had just been built in 1849. It greatly eased access to Eaux-Chaudes and offered dramatic views. The town of Eaux-Chaudes, a tourist destination since the late 1500s, had hot springs reputed to have healing waters.
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- Credit line
- Gift of Paula and Robert Hershkowitz in memory of Sam Wagstaff
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